Martin wrote:

> I recently purchased a used Acer Travelmate C302XCI with the hard
> drive wiped clean and no software discs. I contacted Acer Support
> to purchase the recovery discs. Per Acer they refuse to supply any
> "rcovery discs" for products shipped prior to Jan 2006 (this being
> the case with this Acer).

Really bad.
Did you try to "escalate" the case to a higher level?

> If I am able to obtain a recovery disc
> for this particular model from another user will I be able to use
> "my product key" to install the tablet software and still be legal?

There would not be a *legal* problem. The machine came with a valid
licence bound to the hardware.

The problem would be to get hold of the proper CDs.
It could be that CDs from another manufacturer might work as well. But
the editions of XP TabletPC were manufacturer specific so that the key
printed on the OS-label on your machine might not fit for CDs from a
different manufacturer.The CDs for my HP tc1100 f.e. install without
needing a key. Obviously the install is checking for the hardware.

Rainald